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iamrman ([personal profile] iamrman) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily2025-09-10 04:47 pm

Amazing Spider-Man #112

Writer: Gerry Conway

Pencils and inks: John Romita, Sr.


It’s another “Peter swears off being Spider-Man” issue.


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tcampbell1000 ([personal profile] tcampbell1000) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily2025-09-09 09:58 pm

Celebrity Poker Showdown: Justice League #4 (JLI 3 of ?)



Dan Jurgens is best known for producing Superman stories so straightforward it's almost like they're written and drawn by Superman himself. But before he did that, he designed a hero for the Man of Steel to loathe (BOOSTER GOLD #7).

Not the first to irritate him, but at least he knew Ambush Bug had his HEART in the right place. )
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iamrman ([personal profile] iamrman) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily2025-09-10 01:03 pm

All-Star Squadron #7

Writer: Roy Thomas

Pencils: Adrian Gonzales

Inks: Jerry Ordway


The All-Star Squadron must stop Baron Blitzkrieg from assassinating the Allied leaders.


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Cimorene ([personal profile] cimorene) wrote2025-09-10 10:51 am

Updates

I have been a mess for about a week now, partly just in anxiety about learning to drive and my driving lessons.

After the first few lessons I was having lots of trouble with the clutch and I was really worried about it (I still think it's unnecessarily complicated for regular cars, but... I've mostly got it now). And I can't just add extra easy repetitions to build more motor memory and make it automatic because I can't drive outside the driving school until I have my license. I had to add an extra three lessons (to the original 6) because I just didn't have it yet. I have had one of those now, and the teacher and I agreed I will probably be ready to take the driving test after just a little more practice. So we booked the driving test in two weeks, and my last two driving lessons the day of and the day before. Hopefully that will be enough! Failing is to be avoided: it costs 99 euros to take the test, but if you fail it, the second time costs like three hundred.

I had lessons three days in a row this week, and I absolutely should not drive without taking methylphenidate: taking adhd medication significantly reduces driving accidents for adhd sufferers. But while it makes it easier to concentrate, it also speeds up my heart and... kind of makes me hyperfocus and be in a hurry? Generally, it makes anxiety worse. I have real trouble slowing down and relaxing to the appropriate level for driving, but I can't take a tranquilizer for the anxiety so I just have to try to breathe deeply and stuff. Probably walking a couple miles or something first would be better, if I were in shape, and if I would be able to shower and go to the lesson right away (but it takes 50 minutes on the bus to get there).

I also contacted the licensed Bernina repair shop about the sewing machine that won't go, and he said he has a huge backlog right now and to try again in October-November. I delayed contacting him for a year and a half after the problem appeared, so this is comparatively minor and I can't be mad, but of course now I want it urgently because both pairs of my flannel pajama pants are falling beyond the reach of patching and mending.

One of the triplets finally told us what she wanted in a sweater and we ordered the yarn, but the other two are silent and our attempts to get them to give us their measurements have also failed. I suppose we'll have to propose a date when we will show up and ask if they can hand us their favorite sweatshirts to be measured then or not.
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Cat ([personal profile] lilly_c) wrote in [community profile] writethisfanfic2025-09-09 08:29 pm
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check in day 9

How is the writing going today?

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Today I

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wrote
3 (37.5%)

edtied
4 (50.0%)

posted
2 (25.0%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

researched
0 (0.0%)

planned
3 (37.5%)

had a cheeky break
0 (0.0%)

dealt with life
2 (25.0%)



Discussion: Do you do a lot of research for your fic or very little?
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iamrman ([personal profile] iamrman) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily2025-09-09 06:59 pm

Teen Titans (1996) #9

Words and pencils: Dan Jurgens

Inks: George Perez


Prysm finds herself in the lost world of Skartaris.


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rocky41_7 ([personal profile] rocky41_7) wrote in [community profile] books2025-09-09 10:23 am

Recent Reading: Tales of Earthsea

We're back at the Earthsea Cycle with book 5: Tales of Earthsea. This book is a collection of short stories set in Earthsea, crafted as a kind of bridge between books 4 and 6.

Friends may recall that the last book, Tehanu, was not my favorite of the series, although I appreciate what Le Guin was doing. In Tales of Earthsea, we get the best of both worlds in a sense--a return to the fantasy adventure themes of the original trilogy combined with Le Guin's updated views on gender and roles. Like TehanuTales of Earthsea is no longer really children's fiction. Sex, substance abuse, child abuse, and various other mature themes are much more present here than in the original trilogy. These later Earthsea books read like they were written for the then-adult fans of the original trilogy, and I think it works well.

In each of the five stories of Tales of Earthsea, Le Guin is introducing us to elements of Earthsea society not seen before in the series: How women ended up being excluded from wizardry, a young man with the ability to become a wizard (the magical aptitude) who decides he wants another sort of life for himself, a wizard of Roke who misuses his power and chooses not to return although he is invited to, a woman who wants to study at Roke but is refused. In this way, Le Guin gives much breadth to the world of Earthsea by introducing these stories outside the "mainstream" Earthsea narratives.

I respect that Le Guin doesn't just try to retcon the sexism written into the earlier Earthsea books--instead, she really tries here to reckon with how the women of Earthsea manage it, how they get around it, and how it hurts them. The resultant picture feels realistic, up to and including how frustrating it is to watch women be excluded from the school of Roke despite having helped found it. 

She continues with her theme of unexpected heroes--protagonists who are average people from little nothing towns on little nothing islands who despite expectations prove themselves capable of great things, which is always fun to watch. 

We get backstory on several things present in the original trilogy, like the founding of the school and some history of Ged's first teacher, Ogion, which was great fun (and once again I am screaming clapping cheering as the specialist boy in all of Earthsea Ged makes a cameo).

A very enjoyable read overall, and I feel properly enthused and excited for the next book. 
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iamrman ([personal profile] iamrman) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily2025-09-09 03:12 pm

Adventures of Superman #457

Plot: George Perez

Script: Roger Stern

Pencils: Dan Jurgens

Inks: Ty Templeton


Matrix's psychic link with Superman accidentally causes them to terrorise Smallville. Meanwhile, Intergang are still out to get Lois Lane.


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icon_uk ([personal profile] icon_uk) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily2025-09-09 08:31 am

Mod Post: Off-Topic Tuesday

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Talk about non-comics stuff, thread derail, and just generally chat among yourselves.

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British bargain-bin-Trump-wannabe Farage, appeared in front of a committee in the US Congress, it did not go well for him, though it has to be noted that the UK media did not cover the excoriation bit much, which is a shame.

Those missing Star Trek Prodigy may (or may not) be consoled at knowing there is a new animated Trek in town, albeit one with a rather different target audience, "Star Trek Scouts" . I can't wait for TrekCultures "Ups and Downs" on THIS one! :)

And this weekend JemCon seemed like a good time to release the new synthwave re-recording of "Glitter and Gold"

A new LEGO Batman video game from Traveller's Tales is coming!!
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iamrman ([personal profile] iamrman) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily2025-09-09 07:53 am

Starman (1988) #15

Writer: Roger Stern

Pencils: Tom Lyle

Inks: Bob Smith


Starman fights a super-powered hitman named Deadline.


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Cat ([personal profile] lilly_c) wrote in [community profile] writethisfanfic2025-09-08 08:48 pm
Entry tags:

check in day 8

How is the writing going today?

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 3


Today I

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wrote
2 (66.7%)

edited
1 (33.3%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

researched
0 (0.0%)

planned
0 (0.0%)

had a cheeky break
0 (0.0%)

dealt with life
1 (33.3%)

posted
0 (0.0%)



Discussion: do you have a favourite place to write? at home, outside, in a cafe etc.
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ravenna_c_tan ([personal profile] ravenna_c_tan) wrote2025-09-08 02:43 pm

New story at Sunday Morning Transport! *rocket emoji*

I’m still riding the creative high and queer community solidarity feeling that came from reading at Writers With Drinks in Seattle. Charlie Jane Anders was an incandescent host, Charlie’s Queer Books put so many books into people’s hands, all the readers were fire!

The story I read from, “Large Emotional Models,” is now live on the Sunday Morning Transport!

I’ve just spent the past five minutes trying to write a sentence describing the story, but the story is itself the best expression of the underlying ideas, so I keep throwing them away. The official description is “a story about fitting into one’s skin and the universe.”

I was motivated to write it when I was on my way to an academic conference, and I got ad-targeted on Instagram by a university in Europe offering positions to American academics fleeing the country. I started writing a story on the airplane to the conference, balling up all my feelings about the moment we are living through right now, with AI and LLMs and attacks on academia and science and the tidal wave of transphobia, and out came a story that is about Prince and David Bowie and grief?

It is their free story this month, so everyone can read it, but if you’d like to try getting a really great sf/f story from Sunday Morning Transport every week, here’s a signup link for friends and family to get two months free: https://www.sundaymorningtransport.com/smt2024

Collage of photos from Writers with Drinks (photos by Jo Sisodia/Charlie’s Queer Books):
Collage of photos by Jo Sisodia/Charlie's Queer Books showing Cecilia Tan, a dark-haired author in dark glasses wearing black, at a lectern in a large church-like lecture hall full of people

Mirrored from Cecilia Tan.

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iamrman ([personal profile] iamrman) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily2025-09-08 05:25 pm

The Spectre (1987) #10

Writer: Doug Moench

Pencils and inks: Gray Morrow


Millennium tie-in.

The Spectre is pulled into the fight against the Manhunters.


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iamrman ([personal profile] iamrman) wrote in [community profile] scans_daily2025-09-08 03:13 pm

Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man #67

Writer: Bill Mantlo

Pencils: Ed Hannigan

Inks: Al Milgrom


Boomerang tries to prove himself to the Kingpin by eliminating Spider-Man.


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